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For God, country and Coca-Cola : the definitive history of the great American soft drink and the company that makes it / Mark Pendergrast.

Lippincott Library HD9349.S634 C674 2013
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Pendergrast, Mark.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Coca-Cola Company--History.
Coca-Cola Company.
Soft drink industry--United States--History.
Soft drink industry.
History.
United States.
Physical Description:
ix, 523 pages ; 24 cm
Edition:
Third Edition: Revised and Expanded.
Place of Publication:
New York : Basic Books, [2013]
Summary:
From its invention as a cocaine-laced patent medicine in the Gilded Age to its globe-drenching ubiquity as the ultimate symbol of consumer capitalism, Coca-Cola's dramatic history unfolds as the ultimate business saga.
Contents:
Preface
Prologue: a parable (January 1, 1985)
In the beginning (1886-1899)
Time capsule : the golden age of quackery
What Sigmund Freud, Pope Leo, and John Pemberton had in common
The tangled chain of title
Asa Candler : his triumphs and headaches
Bottle it : the world's stupidest, smartest contract
Heretics and true believers (1900-1922)
Success under siege
Dr. Wiley Weighs in
The sinister syndicate
Coca-Cola's civil war
The golden age (1923-1949)
Robert W. Woodruff : the boss takes the helm
A euphoric depression and Pepsi's push
The $4,000 bottle : Coca-Cola goes to war
Coca-Cola über alles
Trouble in the Promised Land (1950-1979)
Coca-colonization and the communists
Breaking the commandments
Paul Austin's turbulent sixites
Big Red's uneasy slumber
The Goizueta go-go era (1980-1997)
Roberto Goizueta's bottom line
The marketing blunder of the century
The big red machine
Global fizz
Quenching all thirsts (1997-2012)
Ivester inherits a world of trouble
Daft dilemmas
Turnaround
Surging ahead
World without end?
Appendix 1: The sacred formula
Appendix 2: Coca-Cola magic : thirty business lessons
Note on sources
Acknowledgments
Index.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0465029175
9780465029174
9780786723324
0786723327
OCLC:
808413532
Publisher Number:
99961266883

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